ERHC Energy to Present at the Rodman & Renshaw Annual Global Investment Conference

HOUSTON, TX--(Marketwire - Sep 12, 2011) - ERHC Energy Inc. (OTCBB: ERHE), a publicly traded American company with oil and gas assets in Sub-Saharan Africa, today announced that its Financial Officer, Sylvan Odobulu, will deliver a presentation on ERHC at the Rodman & Renshaw Annual Global Investment Conference. The event is being held through September 13, 2011 at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City with more than 4,000 attendees expected, including high net-worth institutional investors, private equity firms, sophisticated private investors and industry executives.

ERHC's presentation will cover the Company's growth strategy, its oil and gas exploration blocks in the Republic of Chad and in the São Tomé & Príncipe Exclusive Economic Zone as well as its oil and gas assets in the Nigeria-São Tomé & Príncipe Joint Development Zone.

ERHC is scheduled to present as part of the Energy track today at 4:55 p.m. Eastern Time in the Beekman Suite of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York. For more information, please visit http://www.rodmanrenshaw.com.

ERHC's presentation will be posted on ERHC's website at http://www.erhc.com/presentations.

The conference will include a series of one-on-one meetings with institutional investors.

About ERHC Energy

ERHC Energy Inc. is a Houston-based independent oil and gas company focused on growth through high impact exploration in Africa and the development of undeveloped and marginal oil and gas fields. ERHC is committed to creating and delivering significant value for its shareholders, investors and employees, and to sustainable and profitable growth through risk balanced smart exploration, cost efficient development and high margin production. For more information, visit www.erhc.com.

Cautionary Statement

This press release contains statements concerning ERHC Energy Inc.'s future operating milestones, future drilling operations, the planned exploration and appraisal program, future prospects, future investment opportunities and financing plans, future shareholders' meetings as well as other matters that are not historical facts or information. Such statements are inherently subject to a variety of risks, assumptions and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated, projected, expressed or implied. A discussion of the risk factors that could impact these areas and the Company's overall business and financial performance can be found in the Company's reports and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These factors include, among others, those relating to the Company's ability to exploit its commercial interests in Chad, the JDZ and the Exclusive Economic Zone of São Tomé and Príncipe, general economic and business conditions, changes in foreign and domestic oil and gas exploration and production activity, competition, changes in foreign, political, social and economic conditions, regulatory initiatives and compliance with governmental regulations and various other matters, many of which are beyond the Company's control. Given these concerns, investors and analysts should not place undue reliance on these statements. Each of the above statements speaks only as of the date of this press release. The Company expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statement to reflect any change in the Company's expectations with regard thereto or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any of the above statements is based.